Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settings of Aline Bernstein, the devastating mimicry of Albert Carroll. "Cautious Cal" sits on a Vermont front porch industriously knitting and singing the praises of isolation. Indignant sex-actors revile District Attorney Banton and padlock censorship in gay lampoon. But over the whole proceedings hangs a dim pall of melancholy. For after the production runs its two weeks' course, the company will disband, the aspiring but indigent Neighborhood Playhouse closes its doors for the last time. Flatly dull and audaciously brilliant by turns, the revue is a gay finale to the life of the Neighborhood Playhouse...
...Harvard track team, coached by W. J. Bingham '16, and-starting the season with poor prospects of success, staged a series of upsets in the Yale meet on the Stadium cinders to gain a hard won victory. This year again Harvard prospects of triumph over the Blue seemed dim at the, beginning of the season. Strength in the running events had carried the Crimson to an intercollegiate title early in March, but the preponderance of the New Haven aggregation in the weights and jumps was a little use in indoor competition...
...sung on a dim stage to the sounds of "Hearts and Flowers" played on a muted saxaphone...
Perhaps the best way to understand is to enter the dim, vaulted portal of Notre Dame de Paris with young Paul Claudel at vespers time on Christmas...
...Denver Juvenile Court, if not the first in the world, was the first to have almost arbitrary powers-over parents as well as children-for aid or correction. Benjamin B. Lindsey was its "father" and has been its only judge. The important cases he has heard in a dim secluded office. They make good stories. The "trouble" is nearly always sex. Last year, 1,000 girls came to him; 800 "had not let mother in on the secret." In one case, the Judge will personally arrange for the baby to be smuggled away at birth to a childless couple...